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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Good Neighbors or Conspirators?

Inside Higher EdAugust 24th, 2015

Colleges and universities lure top faculty members away from
competitor institutions all the time, and the practice is (generally
speaking) entirely legal. But while some relish it,
others consider faculty poaching, or actively recruiting faculty
members from competitors, bad form and try to avoid doing it regularly
-- especially to institutions in the same geographic area.
A new antitrust lawsuit alleges much more than a neighborly
understanding between Duke University and the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, however. The suit, brought against Duke by a
medical faculty member there, rather alleges a binding no-hire agreement
between the two Research Triangle institutions prevented her from
getting a job at Carolina that otherwise would have been hers. The
faculty member alleges there are others like her, and she’s proposed a
class action.